Recommended reading for developing coping skills

Here is our very selective picks for what would be some of the most insightful and practical books that can help you strengthen your ability to cope with life’s challenges. They can also help you move faster to success in any area.

Survivor Personality by Al Siebert
A very good starting point and overall map for developing coping skills and resiliency. Dr. Al Siebert, a psychologist, has devoted over 40 years of his life to studying survivors, people who were able to live through and rise from life situations where most perish or fail, from death camps and incurable illnesses to a wide range of other scenarios of devastating change. It appears that, beneath the surface, those people often share a number of key traits in their thinking and approaches to life. Surprisingly, many of those traits are not quite what you would expect from common stereotypes of survivors. The insights of this book can drastically change how you go about challenges in your life.

Raising Your Emotional Intelligence: A Practical Guide by Jeanne S. Segal
In coping with change or other life’s challenges, your emotions can be your best friend or your worst enemy. They can navigate you through the darkness and give you critical clues for problem resolution, but they also have the power to override and block your thinking and paralyze whatever other coping skills and strategies you may have, depending on your level of emotional intelligence. This book is a good starting point and base for building strengths on the emotional components of the coping skills.

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